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bornt

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Etymology 1

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Apparently born + -t; compare kilt (killed).

Verb

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bornt

  1. (Geordie and some other dialects) simple past and past participle of born
    • 1983 September 15, Woody Guthrie, Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling, Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 32:
      "Oughtta been bornt sooner," the little runt piped up.
    • 2017 October 3, Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Akashic Books, →ISBN:
      they might as well not have been bornt at all. [] Maybe we all should’ve bornt ourselves in another time, another place.

Etymology 2

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Verb

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bornt

  1. Obsolete form of burnt.
    • 1551, Samuel, William (fl. 1551-1569), The abridgemente of goddes statutes in myter:
      Next to that went Israell forth the Madianits to kyll / And slue ye males & bornt ther towns and led the rest at wyll.
    • 1559, John Bradford, The complaynt of veritie:
      accept this bornt sacrifcie O heauenly Father,
    • 1575, Thomas Churchyard, The firste parte of Churchyardes chippes contayning twelue seuerall labours:
      And how that Warres bryngs wo and waest, and leaues a kyngdom baer. The people spoyld, the howsis bornt, the freends and neighbour slayn: